The most effective thing that one can do is to face their own dark side. See how the suffering it has caused them affects and has affected those around them. Own it. Share it, what and how they have leave learned from this encounter. Realize, as a Navajo elder shared, they don't create even the air they breathe. This opens a door of surrender and trust in a now obvious Higher Power they long to be part of and already are. Loving. Clear. Aware. Joyful. Creative. Innocent. The emanation of Russell Brand now, seeking and speaking Jesus. Thank you for writing this book, Russell Brand. I pray any stone thrower reads you.
the book looks great i can relate . After finding a way to slow, & reverse BV/FTD/ALS dx, and not had a drink since Sept 8, 1989 - I am sure i can relate, even to the current situation. We are all cary a Cross, and the world's reflection is harsh, but when we turn to the LIGHT for our identity, We Shine and allow others to shine too. Thanks so much, Bobbie for promote of Russel B. book - Love Kelli McGowan
Whoa....Has MAHA now become a Christian and Trump/Republican supporting organization? If so, count me out. MAHA has, at its core, a tremendous opportunity to affect the transformation of public health in all ways. Aligning with Christianity and the Republican agenda writ large greatly limits MAHA's message. I am neither a Christian nor a Republican. Please stay focused on all of us, vitally engaged in creating a healthy America.
The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’ a
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
Matthew- I honor your faith and your willingness to share what is true for you. I have a great respect and love for Christ and his teachings; however, I choose not to be a Christian. I hope that MAHA is able to embrace those of us who have another life path.
Matthew, thank you for speaking truth to stupidity. I have had comments from some of these folks & if you don't agree with their perspective they will hurl at you all manner of vile, vulgar comments. " . . . you will do greater things than I have done . . . " (para JOHN 14:12)
Gee what a victim, Tee! you're so "brave" putting up with all the devils and naysayers that hound you. But one day you will be rewarded in Heaven for all the shit you put with up by the likes of..me. And quote your cocksucking Scriptures there, Biblical scholar!
I totally agree with Craig Neal : lay the fuck off all the Christian and Republican bullshit, people !! Take it somewhere else. And that includes the editors and writers here. Some of us do NOT want to hear about it. Make this really bipartisan here. We MAHA socialists are NOT interested in hearing about your Jesus shit.
Craig Neal, as far as I know, RFK, Jr has identified himself as a Christian, and I consider him the founder of the MAHA movement. Also, how can we understand true health apart from our Maker? When we want to know how to keep your cars running well, we consider the manufacturer’s recommendations. The same should be true of our bodies.
22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.
27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
29 “Come,” he said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
32 And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. 33 Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
Jesus walked on my swimming pool, I mean it! Then loss his balance and fell into the water and cursed his ass off. Whoa, the dude's got a temper! No shit.
Dee, as I shared with Matthew, I honor and respect your Christianity as I do RFK if he is, in fact, a believer. I sense that MAHA has identified itself as a republican based organization, which will be difficult for me, and I suspect others, to stay involved.
Health incorporates all four levels of our being - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
If you don't like the specific references to "Christ," substitute them with words that better resonate with your beliefs (e.g. Universe, Love, quantum field, collective consciousness, etc).
I was going to write a comment about what a great book this may be and that I might actually buy it, with real money, rather than wait for it to be tossed in a Little Free Library, and then I made the mistake of reading some previous comments with a number of expectorations about Brand's past and Christianity in general. So now I have to put on my defense lawyer cap. 1) Defendants are assumed innocent until proven guilty; it's a rule we seldom honor anymore, preferring to convict people on bare allegations and reporters' decisions about what to present (there are now TWO Wikipedia articles listing Epstein papers names [Brand isn't one] because there were too many to list in just one; are these all pedophiles? Is that really the world you think you live in?). 2) This is a MAHA newsletter; if we're going to attack people based on their past, RFK Jr. is a good place to start; when I was in college, he was scoring drugs down the street; he was addicted to whatever you'd give him; his marriages were not happy and women have made allegations about his sexual conduct. Should he be canceled from honest company and assumed unable to work good on earth because of it? 3) If you only give credence to people who've never been in trouble, you're following people with only half a view of life, people who have never confronted their wrongs and had to correct them, ask forgiveness, and push on; these are character-building experiences, and I've found (I'm 70 years old) that those who make it through are far more sympathetic, sensitive, and common-sensical than those who've lived their lives as perfect-A students. 4) Brand isn't just a Christian, he's a Catholic; that ought to really put the fear of God into nay-sayers who see the Church as a haven for (natch) pedophiles, repression, money-grabbing, and hypocracy. It is not, and there's not enough room here to explain why. If you don't want religion, that's your choice. I have found, however, that there seems to be an absolute fear of religion among certain people, as if faith in God might detract from faith in other things (kings or No Kings, gender equlity or communism or free enterprise or sneakers) when all religious faith does is to cast a different light on those things. In closing, I will definitely read this book (maybe buy it!) because Brand is smart, funny, humble, and articulate, and I like that!
Given that a good amount of Christians believe that "others" (which is a lot of people all over the globe) are going to hell, I'm not a fan of MAHA promoting this book. "Finding your way back to Christ" is exactly the kind of narrative that gets other people feared, marginalized or, heaven forbid, killed. Christ is a perfectly fine path for some. Just not for all. MAHA: The H is for Health, right? Good health does include supportive community and a belief in something greater than oneself. But please steer clear of a narrative as divisive as this. Thank you.
Lisa, the Christ belongs to everyone. Everyone. Jesus Christ is not a church. I'm a non-church-going Christian and a MAGA-voting Independent. It thrills my heart that Russell Brand is remembering where we all came from and where we're all (except soulless NPCs) going. This can only help Make America Healthy Again. I know you mean well, my sister, but please notice your own divisive narrative.
That's exactly my point. Some people actually have no interest in Christ. And that's ok. That's not divisive. What's divisive is imposing your ideology on others. I didn't say anything about Christ being a church. You are beautifully illustrating my point. Unity means uniting people. Not in Christ, in goodness and love. So, "sister", take the log out of your own eye.
(Clunk. Ooh--log landed on my foot.) My view: the Christ entity, as embodied by Jesus Sananda on Earth, IS goodness and love. Not necessarily a path. Necessarily goodness and love.
"My view" ~ those are your key words. Check out "A Course in Miracles" ~ your "view" and understanding of what Jesus was saying will broaden considerably and become loving, the way it was meant to be.
Having never been a religious person myself (though also not an atheist), I will typically take something like this and substitute words that more align with my beliefs (e.g. the "Universe" instead of "Christ"). This allows the underlying spiritual message to better resonate with me so I can still get something meaningful out of it.
Health exists on all four levels of our being - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It is the spiritual level that this piece speaks to.
TeeJae, because we have liked & comments on each other's before, I am going to comment in agreement on 'our health @ all 4 levels'. Also Jesus, the Christ, is the anointed one for the Universe. He is the Word, the Logos which created the Universe . . . whether or not people know this to be true.
What total fucking arrogant Christian bullshit. So deluded you are. You know what's true,and us lesser mortals do not. Shit like this led to the Inquisition.
Hey , why don't you go somewhere and speak in tongues, and ask your fucking "God" to smite my atheist ass.
A Damascene conversion after 50 years of unsuccessfully trying to make "hedonic adjustments"...
Brand is a bright guy who finally realized that spiritual wealth accrues through giving love and compassion (sometimes stuff, with compassionate intent). To know yourself as a conduit for the flow of goodness is to enter the realm of wisdom.
As a Christian, I was thrilled when Russel found Christ. He preached Jesus better than a lot of preachers I’ve heard!
I have to say I’m not thrilled that he’s let his old ways creep back in (eg the profanity, etc). Also, I’m seeing him add in a mix of mysticism (Jung, etc), which is counterfeit Christianity. I pray that he will return to Biblical TRUTH he found and which he seems to have abandoned so quickly. 🙏🏼
So according to you, he was only “relevant” when he allegedly raped and assaulted women? That’s interesting.
I also would encourage you to become as you say “curious” about what he’s done in past six years, which has made him quite relevant to hundreds of thousands of people.
Those who only skim the surface of Brand’s former career really can’t weigh in with any depth of position. Perhaps this book likely might help you, and others like you with that understanding.
"which has made him quite relevant to hundreds of thousands of people." -- I would say 6.7 MILLION, according to the number of his YouTube subscribers.
His relevance, and subsequent less-relevant career, are matters of fact. I admit he has become more relevant to some people who agree with his views on the issues.
None of this has to do with the allegations against him which are also on the record.
Frankly most Americans don't realize how or why this man was so famous in Britain and what role his sex life played in that fame. If they did perhaps they'd be shocked. One might say that the one constant here is his use of fame for personal gain.
I did not know that he had a book out! I will definitely buy it ASAP. He’s adorable & our hearts have been happy to see him, finding his way. It’s one giant bright spot in this semi-concerning world, eh?
Sounds like a load of total fucking bullshit! All this Jesus and God crap just like from the freaks of the evangelical world like Charlie Kirk, may he rot in "Hell". "Religion is the opium of the People " and how true, thanks Karl ! Now Brand has just doped himself up in another way, after TM and Revolution previously in his life!
Here is what really happenned to him, according to the theories of neo-Freudian psychoanalist Arthur Janov. It's called the Conversion Experience which is just another neurotic way of coping with existence. This below may be hard to understand for those unacquainted with Janov's theories but I include it anyways, in case something makes sense to someone. (See especially his book "Prisoners of Pain" )
Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Conversion Experience by ARTHUR JANOV
The conversion experience is an important aspect of belief systems. Due to one cataclysmic event, a person "sees the light" and is inalterably changed. As a rule, this epiphanic moment happens suddenly, converting the individual from a suffering, despairing human being into someone who has found supposed peace and salvation. It is a seemingly magical experience that appears to happen without rhyme or reason.
Many of my patients have talked about their earlier conversions. Things must be going badly — this is the sine qua non for the conversion experience. Further, the difficulties must have endured for some time before the defense system (against unconscious traumas) begins to crumble. The individual's current situation, compounded with past trauma, becomes more than the person can handle. Suddenly there is breakdown and conversion.
I recall how one patient put it: "I was broke, divorced and alone for some time. One day, sitting in the park alone at dusk, I felt something grab me and I screamed out all to myself, 'I’ve been saved!' What I discovered later in therapy was that I had been "saved" from an hithertho unconscious feeling that I was never saved, that my parents let me drown in my misery without so much as batting an eye. They did nothing to help me, turned me out at the age of 15 because I didn't behave, and let me flounder in life through drugs and alcohol without once reaching out to help.”
Naked before this neglect, unloved, alone, she fled into the arms of the mystical, where she no longer felt alone or unloved. Now that she had been "saved" , she no longer had to reexperience the real underlying feeling that there was no one to save her from her childhood hell. She now had renewed false hope, the a pale imitation of the real hope she had lost very early in her life. This was the essence of her conversion; she had converted hopelessness into false hope.
Therein lies the paradigm for the conversion experience. I call it a primal crisis. It usually occurs to people when they are in enormous pain or on the brink of it. It is really the snapping point and it occurs when the person can no longer defend. There's nothing else left for her to do but to be "saved" by God.
Very often, when my patients are on the verge of tremendous feelings, particularly the feelings that predate verbal abilities, they begin to shake and tremble enormously; they thrash and writhe as the force of the pain almost lifts them off the ground. One patient, while convulsing violently, screamed out that she felt a "force" shaking her. Finally she cried, "I’ve been saved, I’ve been saved!"
This occurred during a personal crisis, a period of utmost despair and hopelessness. For weeks she had been seriously contemplating suicide. Finally, her conversion experience told why she was suffering so much. By being "born again," she had been "saved" — saved from the discovery that she really had absolutely no one in her life, not now, not ever. Her "rebirth" spared her the experience of profound hopelessness that comes with the realization that she was utterly alone in an indifferent universe, that no one loved her. Once one re-experiences the underlying despair, real hope can be experienced.
Why do people tremble and shake while undergoing "religious conversion?” It's really a very short leap from the feeling fueling these convulsions to sensing a new, magical, benevolent force that controls one's destiny. It is childhood pain converted to a belief in childhood magic, the belief that anything is now possible. The form doesn't matter: Jesus, Buddha, Allah, pyramid power, communication with an omniscient seer from centuries past. One is now in another realm, another universe.
What we see in the conversion experience is how pliable feelings are; how easily they are turned into ideas and how those ideas have the strength of feeling. This process is not as freakish as one might imagine, since it aids in survival.
The most effective thing that one can do is to face their own dark side. See how the suffering it has caused them affects and has affected those around them. Own it. Share it, what and how they have leave learned from this encounter. Realize, as a Navajo elder shared, they don't create even the air they breathe. This opens a door of surrender and trust in a now obvious Higher Power they long to be part of and already are. Loving. Clear. Aware. Joyful. Creative. Innocent. The emanation of Russell Brand now, seeking and speaking Jesus. Thank you for writing this book, Russell Brand. I pray any stone thrower reads you.
the book looks great i can relate . After finding a way to slow, & reverse BV/FTD/ALS dx, and not had a drink since Sept 8, 1989 - I am sure i can relate, even to the current situation. We are all cary a Cross, and the world's reflection is harsh, but when we turn to the LIGHT for our identity, We Shine and allow others to shine too. Thanks so much, Bobbie for promote of Russel B. book - Love Kelli McGowan
Bless you, Kelli, for your healing journey. We are all pretty much 'wounded warriors' - cliche but true.
Bless my ass, Tee.
Whoa....Has MAHA now become a Christian and Trump/Republican supporting organization? If so, count me out. MAHA has, at its core, a tremendous opportunity to affect the transformation of public health in all ways. Aligning with Christianity and the Republican agenda writ large greatly limits MAHA's message. I am neither a Christian nor a Republican. Please stay focused on all of us, vitally engaged in creating a healthy America.
Seriously? "maha" has always just been magatardation. You have to be a cultist to buy into Predator Bobby's reality-bending grifter bullshit.
The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’ a
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
Matthew- I honor your faith and your willingness to share what is true for you. I have a great respect and love for Christ and his teachings; however, I choose not to be a Christian. I hope that MAHA is able to embrace those of us who have another life path.
Matthew, thank you for speaking truth to stupidity. I have had comments from some of these folks & if you don't agree with their perspective they will hurl at you all manner of vile, vulgar comments. " . . . you will do greater things than I have done . . . " (para JOHN 14:12)
Gee what a victim, Tee! you're so "brave" putting up with all the devils and naysayers that hound you. But one day you will be rewarded in Heaven for all the shit you put with up by the likes of..me. And quote your cocksucking Scriptures there, Biblical scholar!
I totally agree with Craig Neal : lay the fuck off all the Christian and Republican bullshit, people !! Take it somewhere else. And that includes the editors and writers here. Some of us do NOT want to hear about it. Make this really bipartisan here. We MAHA socialists are NOT interested in hearing about your Jesus shit.
Craig Neal, as far as I know, RFK, Jr has identified himself as a Christian, and I consider him the founder of the MAHA movement. Also, how can we understand true health apart from our Maker? When we want to know how to keep your cars running well, we consider the manufacturer’s recommendations. The same should be true of our bodies.
What fucking Maker ?
Jesus Walks on the Water
22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.
27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
29 “Come,” he said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
32 And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. 33 Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
Jesus walked on my swimming pool, I mean it! Then loss his balance and fell into the water and cursed his ass off. Whoa, the dude's got a temper! No shit.
Dee, as I shared with Matthew, I honor and respect your Christianity as I do RFK if he is, in fact, a believer. I sense that MAHA has identified itself as a republican based organization, which will be difficult for me, and I suspect others, to stay involved.
RFK Jr believes only his own delusions. Adulation-hungry, conspiracy-addled wannabe savior.
Health incorporates all four levels of our being - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
If you don't like the specific references to "Christ," substitute them with words that better resonate with your beliefs (e.g. Universe, Love, quantum field, collective consciousness, etc).
We count you out. Jesus is never to be dismissed or held in low praise. Best of luck.
"We" do?
Looks like "we" are using alternative pronouns, too.
Sounds like a book I might buy.
I was going to write a comment about what a great book this may be and that I might actually buy it, with real money, rather than wait for it to be tossed in a Little Free Library, and then I made the mistake of reading some previous comments with a number of expectorations about Brand's past and Christianity in general. So now I have to put on my defense lawyer cap. 1) Defendants are assumed innocent until proven guilty; it's a rule we seldom honor anymore, preferring to convict people on bare allegations and reporters' decisions about what to present (there are now TWO Wikipedia articles listing Epstein papers names [Brand isn't one] because there were too many to list in just one; are these all pedophiles? Is that really the world you think you live in?). 2) This is a MAHA newsletter; if we're going to attack people based on their past, RFK Jr. is a good place to start; when I was in college, he was scoring drugs down the street; he was addicted to whatever you'd give him; his marriages were not happy and women have made allegations about his sexual conduct. Should he be canceled from honest company and assumed unable to work good on earth because of it? 3) If you only give credence to people who've never been in trouble, you're following people with only half a view of life, people who have never confronted their wrongs and had to correct them, ask forgiveness, and push on; these are character-building experiences, and I've found (I'm 70 years old) that those who make it through are far more sympathetic, sensitive, and common-sensical than those who've lived their lives as perfect-A students. 4) Brand isn't just a Christian, he's a Catholic; that ought to really put the fear of God into nay-sayers who see the Church as a haven for (natch) pedophiles, repression, money-grabbing, and hypocracy. It is not, and there's not enough room here to explain why. If you don't want religion, that's your choice. I have found, however, that there seems to be an absolute fear of religion among certain people, as if faith in God might detract from faith in other things (kings or No Kings, gender equlity or communism or free enterprise or sneakers) when all religious faith does is to cast a different light on those things. In closing, I will definitely read this book (maybe buy it!) because Brand is smart, funny, humble, and articulate, and I like that!
Nicely stated!
Given that a good amount of Christians believe that "others" (which is a lot of people all over the globe) are going to hell, I'm not a fan of MAHA promoting this book. "Finding your way back to Christ" is exactly the kind of narrative that gets other people feared, marginalized or, heaven forbid, killed. Christ is a perfectly fine path for some. Just not for all. MAHA: The H is for Health, right? Good health does include supportive community and a belief in something greater than oneself. But please steer clear of a narrative as divisive as this. Thank you.
Lisa, the Christ belongs to everyone. Everyone. Jesus Christ is not a church. I'm a non-church-going Christian and a MAGA-voting Independent. It thrills my heart that Russell Brand is remembering where we all came from and where we're all (except soulless NPCs) going. This can only help Make America Healthy Again. I know you mean well, my sister, but please notice your own divisive narrative.
That's exactly my point. Some people actually have no interest in Christ. And that's ok. That's not divisive. What's divisive is imposing your ideology on others. I didn't say anything about Christ being a church. You are beautifully illustrating my point. Unity means uniting people. Not in Christ, in goodness and love. So, "sister", take the log out of your own eye.
(Clunk. Ooh--log landed on my foot.) My view: the Christ entity, as embodied by Jesus Sananda on Earth, IS goodness and love. Not necessarily a path. Necessarily goodness and love.
"My view" ~ those are your key words. Check out "A Course in Miracles" ~ your "view" and understanding of what Jesus was saying will broaden considerably and become loving, the way it was meant to be.
Thanks, Lisa. I probably read A Course in Miracles before you were born.
You know when I was born?
Right on, Lisa!
Jesus does not belong to everyone! Fuck off Sonia and leave us alone with your private nonsense!
He may not belong to you, but you belong to Him, angry Marc.
Be careful of this 'angry Marc'. He will spew vile, vulgar comments endlessly in his own 'holier than thou' attitude.
Vile and vulgar and proud of it. All comments by me are justified.
Justified in your own sick mind
Typical patronising ignorant remark by some holier-than -thou moron.
Having never been a religious person myself (though also not an atheist), I will typically take something like this and substitute words that more align with my beliefs (e.g. the "Universe" instead of "Christ"). This allows the underlying spiritual message to better resonate with me so I can still get something meaningful out of it.
Health exists on all four levels of our being - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It is the spiritual level that this piece speaks to.
TeeJae, because we have liked & comments on each other's before, I am going to comment in agreement on 'our health @ all 4 levels'. Also Jesus, the Christ, is the anointed one for the Universe. He is the Word, the Logos which created the Universe . . . whether or not people know this to be true.
What total fucking arrogant Christian bullshit. So deluded you are. You know what's true,and us lesser mortals do not. Shit like this led to the Inquisition.
Hey , why don't you go somewhere and speak in tongues, and ask your fucking "God" to smite my atheist ass.
You sound just like a libturd; all about you, whining and feeling marginalized. Get a pair and grow up. Next.
A Damascene conversion after 50 years of unsuccessfully trying to make "hedonic adjustments"...
Brand is a bright guy who finally realized that spiritual wealth accrues through giving love and compassion (sometimes stuff, with compassionate intent). To know yourself as a conduit for the flow of goodness is to enter the realm of wisdom.
Good on Ya, Russell! ;-D
As a Christian, I was thrilled when Russel found Christ. He preached Jesus better than a lot of preachers I’ve heard!
I have to say I’m not thrilled that he’s let his old ways creep back in (eg the profanity, etc). Also, I’m seeing him add in a mix of mysticism (Jung, etc), which is counterfeit Christianity. I pray that he will return to Biblical TRUTH he found and which he seems to have abandoned so quickly. 🙏🏼
So glad to hear about his book but more importantly that he adores our Christ, Savior of the world.
Blessed Easter to all and He is Risen!
And Jesus/Yeshua is with us!
Here are some facts for the curious about Brand's career and the legal charges against him.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/uk-comedian-russell-brand-trial-rape-sex-assault-charges-delayed-2026-03-30/
It would be interesting to hear him directly address his effect on the culture of the early 2000s, a period of time when he was still relevant.
So according to you, he was only “relevant” when he allegedly raped and assaulted women? That’s interesting.
I also would encourage you to become as you say “curious” about what he’s done in past six years, which has made him quite relevant to hundreds of thousands of people.
Those who only skim the surface of Brand’s former career really can’t weigh in with any depth of position. Perhaps this book likely might help you, and others like you with that understanding.
"which has made him quite relevant to hundreds of thousands of people." -- I would say 6.7 MILLION, according to the number of his YouTube subscribers.
Agreed, Jeannie. Here is another book which will shed some LIGHT . . . https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27167188M/Revolution
His relevance, and subsequent less-relevant career, are matters of fact. I admit he has become more relevant to some people who agree with his views on the issues.
None of this has to do with the allegations against him which are also on the record.
Frankly most Americans don't realize how or why this man was so famous in Britain and what role his sex life played in that fame. If they did perhaps they'd be shocked. One might say that the one constant here is his use of fame for personal gain.
He is still relevant, just not in your culture.
FDT
I did not know that he had a book out! I will definitely buy it ASAP. He’s adorable & our hearts have been happy to see him, finding his way. It’s one giant bright spot in this semi-concerning world, eh?
Hm. He seems like an opportunist always looking for the next thing to jump to. Like Milo Y.
But... I am open to him being real.... just need more proof than him selling a book, though.
JESUS BULLSHIT
Sounds like a load of total fucking bullshit! All this Jesus and God crap just like from the freaks of the evangelical world like Charlie Kirk, may he rot in "Hell". "Religion is the opium of the People " and how true, thanks Karl ! Now Brand has just doped himself up in another way, after TM and Revolution previously in his life!
Here is what really happenned to him, according to the theories of neo-Freudian psychoanalist Arthur Janov. It's called the Conversion Experience which is just another neurotic way of coping with existence. This below may be hard to understand for those unacquainted with Janov's theories but I include it anyways, in case something makes sense to someone. (See especially his book "Prisoners of Pain" )
Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Conversion Experience by ARTHUR JANOV
The conversion experience is an important aspect of belief systems. Due to one cataclysmic event, a person "sees the light" and is inalterably changed. As a rule, this epiphanic moment happens suddenly, converting the individual from a suffering, despairing human being into someone who has found supposed peace and salvation. It is a seemingly magical experience that appears to happen without rhyme or reason.
Many of my patients have talked about their earlier conversions. Things must be going badly — this is the sine qua non for the conversion experience. Further, the difficulties must have endured for some time before the defense system (against unconscious traumas) begins to crumble. The individual's current situation, compounded with past trauma, becomes more than the person can handle. Suddenly there is breakdown and conversion.
I recall how one patient put it: "I was broke, divorced and alone for some time. One day, sitting in the park alone at dusk, I felt something grab me and I screamed out all to myself, 'I’ve been saved!' What I discovered later in therapy was that I had been "saved" from an hithertho unconscious feeling that I was never saved, that my parents let me drown in my misery without so much as batting an eye. They did nothing to help me, turned me out at the age of 15 because I didn't behave, and let me flounder in life through drugs and alcohol without once reaching out to help.”
Naked before this neglect, unloved, alone, she fled into the arms of the mystical, where she no longer felt alone or unloved. Now that she had been "saved" , she no longer had to reexperience the real underlying feeling that there was no one to save her from her childhood hell. She now had renewed false hope, the a pale imitation of the real hope she had lost very early in her life. This was the essence of her conversion; she had converted hopelessness into false hope.
Therein lies the paradigm for the conversion experience. I call it a primal crisis. It usually occurs to people when they are in enormous pain or on the brink of it. It is really the snapping point and it occurs when the person can no longer defend. There's nothing else left for her to do but to be "saved" by God.
Very often, when my patients are on the verge of tremendous feelings, particularly the feelings that predate verbal abilities, they begin to shake and tremble enormously; they thrash and writhe as the force of the pain almost lifts them off the ground. One patient, while convulsing violently, screamed out that she felt a "force" shaking her. Finally she cried, "I’ve been saved, I’ve been saved!"
This occurred during a personal crisis, a period of utmost despair and hopelessness. For weeks she had been seriously contemplating suicide. Finally, her conversion experience told why she was suffering so much. By being "born again," she had been "saved" — saved from the discovery that she really had absolutely no one in her life, not now, not ever. Her "rebirth" spared her the experience of profound hopelessness that comes with the realization that she was utterly alone in an indifferent universe, that no one loved her. Once one re-experiences the underlying despair, real hope can be experienced.
Why do people tremble and shake while undergoing "religious conversion?” It's really a very short leap from the feeling fueling these convulsions to sensing a new, magical, benevolent force that controls one's destiny. It is childhood pain converted to a belief in childhood magic, the belief that anything is now possible. The form doesn't matter: Jesus, Buddha, Allah, pyramid power, communication with an omniscient seer from centuries past. One is now in another realm, another universe.
What we see in the conversion experience is how pliable feelings are; how easily they are turned into ideas and how those ideas have the strength of feeling. This process is not as freakish as one might imagine, since it aids in survival.